No, but we absolutely welcome you to do so. All information about joining can be found here. We have different levels of membership dependent on what sort of organisation you are. Community Energy England is the voice of the community energy sector in England. To join is to stregthen our voice.

Your group should almost certainly have a "project page". The question is should you also have a "profile page" for your group?

Thinking that through ... would you consider your group to be a one-off project, or an organisation? Are you likely to be running or develop more than one project?

If the answer is yes, you should definitely create an "organisational profile" ... then you can link all the projects you are running (or will run in future) to your "organisational profile" page!

Even if the answer is no or don't know, you might still want to have both types of page, so that you can effectively use the site "as" your group.

Once you have an "organisational profile" for your group, you can:

set up any number of projects from your group's account, so that the profile page is listed as the administrator for the project page, and

be able to post comments across the site "as your group".

Obviously only one person will have the login for this "organisational profile" initially, so make sure to share the login details if you feel like you'd like other people (e.g. your committee) to represent your group on the site.

Either way, it's sensible to have your own (personal) profile on the site.

If you want to have multiple admins for your project page (e.g. the board or steering group), you should consider setting up the project page using an "organisational" profile (and sharing the login details).

The bulk of the content in the early days of this site has been added by Energy Saving Trust and its partners, in consultation with the sector.

However, this is designed to be a dynamic knowledge hub, with content added (and rated) regularly by stakeholders from across the sector.

Users are able to add a "resource" if they are logged in, and are an administrator of a "project". Any resources added will need to be approved by a site admin before they become visible to (and searchable by) others on the site.